


Curry was in the audience, and Couric recalls how stricken she looked by that line. This was a reference to “Today” show co-host Ann Curry, who Couric belittles and who Lauer reportedly bullied off the show. “According to his wife, he’s not really an early riser, if you know what I mean. In these same pages, Couric recounts her routine at Lauer’s Friars Roast, all the way back in 2008, running down a Letterman-esque Top 10 list. Especially as her office was right next to his. Katie Couric torches ‘Today’ rival, stinky Prince Harry, ex-con Martha Stewart and moreīut just to be clear, Couric insists she only “knew he was a player.” If only he had taken it, Couric writes, “Matt could have avoided the whole thing.” Mike Coppola/Getty ImagesĪt another point, she actually describes making him “a pretty sexy” job offer. How could she choose these words? Couric claims to have not known about the allegations surrounding Matt Lauer.

he could charm the pants (as it were) off any celebrity.” When those stories began breaking in the fall of 2017, she writes, “I knew Matt loved beautiful women.

Of that time she went to dinner at Jeffrey Epstein’s house: “Let me explain,” she writes, before not explaining and brushing it off as a weird event, nothing more.Īlso, she had no idea Matt Lauer was a sexual predator. On Roger Ailes: “Who knew he was a monster?” In her cattily-titled “Going There,” she decides to show that the rumors were true all along: Couric was out of her depth in network news, not nearly as smart as she’d have us think, and her bubbly girl-next-door act was just that.Ĭouric makes it clear from the start that she has never been an ally to other women.Īside from the female colleagues she disparages, name-calls, alienates and humiliates - I’ll get to those in a moment - she would have us believe, in her great delusion, that she was a superstar journalist and intellectual who nevertheless had no idea about Harvey Weinstein. Most people write a memoir to settle scores, make a buck, burnish their legacy. Katie Couric doesn’t talk to Matt Lauer anymore, but would have a cup of coffee with himĪnna Sorokin friend suing Netflix over ‘Inventing Anna’ ‘Really upset’ Matt Lauer ‘withdrawn’ from friends after Katie Couric diss Laurie Metcalf on getting directed by ‘triple threat’ Ray Romano
